The Cover Promises: You, the citizen, are best represented through Wiccan symbology.

Representative Quote:

"Decide which items below describe a person who might be refused a California Driver's License:

You are not a U.S. citizen.

You are thirteen years old.

You are on welfare.

You cannot understand simple traffic laws.

You are a woman.

You faint two or three times every day."

Just 28 years ago, the fact that women can drive was a matter for the test.

Or it was for students enrolled in CAP, the Los Angeles school district's "competency based" career and continuing education programs.

Dedicated to the belief that the best students might achieve is a baseline competence, the good folks behind CAP worked up pamphlets and quizzes meant to teach the most raw of basics: how to get a driver's license, why you shouldn't drive drunk, and what you should do if you aren't enjoying sex with your spouse.

It might be hard to imagine a student who would need to be told that driver's licenses can be held by women. But CAPs took on the mission of stating plainly the truths few of us have ever needed to speak out loud.

Here's more from the earlier question: "Decide which items below describe a person who might be refused a California Driver's License":

"You lied on your driver's license application.

You came from a West European country.

You are a Democrat.

You cannot pass the driver's test.

You are high on uppers most of the time.

You are a Catholic.

You owe a great deal of money to a department store."

Quizzes like that seem designed to dispel misinformation. Quizzes like this next one, however, have more practical aims:

This same issue comes up in another CAP pamphlet, "Interpersonal Family Relationships." This pamphlet exists because families are almost as tricky as cars. Here, all the complex ticklishness of real-life marital relations are boiled down to multiple-choice questions:

Jose and Juanita are at a party. Jose has had too many drinks. Juanita is worried that he will not be able to drive home. What should she do?